When Taylor Broussard downed a single teal buzzing his boat blind near Pecan Island earlier this month, he suspected it was just another blue-wing or green-wing. What he wound up with is a bird he'll be able to tell his kids and grandkids about.

A scouting trip while squirrel hunting earlier this fall resulted in the public land buck of a lifetime for Casey Brewer of Rayville, when he shot a 155-inch 10-point on Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge.

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Most freshwater fishermen don’t give a lot of thought to the little fish in their bait bucket. They’re just shiners. Or to the glittery little fish flashing in the creek, river or lake — they’re just minnows.

Enforcement agents with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries arrested two convicted felons in Washington Parish last weekend for allegedly spotlighting deer near Franklinton, according to a news release.

It’s not often that a hunter who shoots a 170-class deer gets more excited to find a 6-inch piece of antler than the actual animal itself, but that’s exactly what happened with Heath Clement and a unique Hogue Island buck nicknamed “Handlebars.”